Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13171, Stephen Godfrey, Conn.

OSERVICE
SERVICE Conn.
NUMBER _____
Godfrey Stephen
L. 13171
carded
CONTENTS

Jan 19 - 1836 AB -
1264 9729 9720 Connecticut
Stephen Godfrey of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut who was a forlorn in the Company commanded by Captain Andrews - of the Regt: commanded by Col Lemmon in the Ct. line time for 18 mo. Sep: 5 then for 3
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 110 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of June 1833 and sent to Nehemiah Allen Sandwich
Arrears to the 14th of March 1835 $220.00 Semiant. allowance ending Sept. 1 55.00
$275.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk. Book E Vol. 3 Page 15

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } Fairfield, on this 23. day of July, 1832. personally appeared in Open Court, before a Special Court of Probate
held at Fairfield in and for the Probate District of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield. State of Connecticut, now sitting. Stephen Godfrey a resident of the Town of Fairfield in County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut Aged Eighty Six years who being first sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. that he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and Served as herein stated /viz/ at the commencement of his Service in the Revolutionary War, in the year 1776 then residing in the Town of Fairfield County of Fairfield State of Connecticut then belonging to the Militia Company of Capt. John Andrews, he thinks of Col. Dimes Brig. he marched with said Capt. Andrews in his Company to and for the Defense of New York, the Company went to New York by water in a Sloop from Saugatuck in said Fairfield and Landed near Coeleus Hook, and then found the Brig. he Reacted under command of Genl. Sillerman when he Served until the City was Evacuated by the American Troops then marched out to Harlem, when the Brig. Staid some time and then he was discharged and returned home. he thinks to the best of his recollection he Served two months and a half and immediately after his Return to Fairfield he was drafted out of the aforesaid Militia Company of Capt. Andrews for Six Months and Served on the Guard under said Capt. Andrews in the Parish of Greenwich in said Fairfield, on the Sea Coast, he Reacts that one third of the Company Stood Centry Every Night. Turn & Turn about, in fall of the year 1777. he went with the aforesaid Militia Company under Capt. Andrews to Fishkill and Redhook, and was there when Burgoyne was taken, and he then returned home with the aforesaid Company, he Served on that form of duty about two months, he says his Company marched up and down the River from Fishkill to Redhook to Spofford several times, he was in the Service in Capt. Andrews Company when the Enemy landed at Compo and went to Danbury. at the time they Burnt Danbury, he went into Service at command of his Captain and Served about one week, he knows of no other man now living that Served with him in either of the two last Companies and in the year 1779 he Enlisted under Sergeant Lewis and believe in Capt. Joseph Dimes Company. Col. (Dimes Brig.) for Nine Months and was Stationed in the Parish of Greenwich in said Fairfield as a Guard of the Sea Coast. he says he was Attached to the said Parish and endeavored in his own house when they kept

the gun and ammunition, he enlisted Early in the Spring and Served Nine Months until late in the fall of the same year. he Marched with the Gun the day that Fairfield was Burnt. as far as the Mill River About One Mile West of Fairfield and then was ordered to Huth Farms about Three Miles West of Fairfield where he Staid all night. Next Morning News Came that the Enemy was burning Greenfarm. he was then ordered with the Gun to the heights North of Greenfarm Meeting here which was then on fire, and saw a man with a broad of fire in his hand coming to burn. with Waller's horse. and fired at him. the ball struck just over his head and he droped. the Brand of fire & iron, was at several Skirmishes at Compo and other parts of said Parish of Greenfarm. he says Early in the Spring of the year 1781. he enlisted under Capt. Thomas Nash in Col. (Dixon's) Regt of State Troop. and Served Nine Months until late in the fall of the same year, and had charge of a Small Guard, as Serjeant. and was Stationed at the Small Guard House in Greenfarm in said Fairfield, and Early in the Spring of the year 1782. he again enlisted under Capt. Thomas Nash in Col. Dixon's Regt of State Troops, and Served Nine Months until late in the fall of the same year, and had charge of a Small Guard as Serjeant and was Stationed at a Guard house we Built, the Enemy having burnt the one we were Stationed in last year, this last year Service was performed in the Parish of Greenfarm alone, he says he was in several Skirmishes with the Enemy while on Guard, a party of them. Scouting. Twenty. fifty & one Hundred went from Long Island. after Battle Ship V. and one time they burnt the Guard house, and Carried away Cattle. Every chance they could get. but don't Request any further particulars to relate, he don't Remember of any Service Rendered after being discharged from the last Muster. Guard he has no written discharge. if he ever had any at any time is lost. Neither has he any Documentary Evidence of Service, he was born in Fairfield on the 4th day of October 1745. I have no Record of my age except on my Account Book which I Copied from my Father. Account Book. I lived in Fairfield when I entered the Service, and have lived in Fairfield Ever Since, was called into the Service as before related, and served According to my best Recollection under the Officers as Above Stated, Genl. Silliman was at Danbury and New York when I was in those places in Service (he might be Col at the time) Genl. Washington was in New York at the time I was in Service there, and I was during both all nights except of Brookland Ferry then saw him when he landed from Long Island. I never
Stephen Goodwin

And the sd Stephen Godfrey hereby Relinquishes every Claim whatever to a pension or Annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Stephen Godfrey
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and date aforesaid before me
David Hill Judge of Probate -
And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above Applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and bound as he states - and the Court further certifies that it appears to the said Court that Ebenezer Joseph and Stephen Merchance the two deponents in one of the annexed certificates are men of the first respectability and that their statements are entitled to credit - David Hill Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Falmouth -
I David Hill Jun Clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Stephen Godfrey for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 25 th day of July 1832
David Hill Jun Clerk

State of Connecticut } ss District of Fairfield June the 3 d 1833 County of Fairfield }
On this 3 d day of June 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the district of said, now sitting, Stephen Godfrey, a resident of the said District, aged eighty seven years; who being first duly sworn according to Law, did on his oath make the following declarations, in addition to, and explanatory of the declaration, he made the 25 th day of July 1832, and in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - With these views the declarant says, the second term of duty, when he was drafted for six months to serve on guard on the sea coast of Fairfield in the parish of Greensfarms under Capt Andrews. stated in his former declaration as having taken place in 1776 immediately after his return from New York after it was taken possession of by the British. That he served the six months as a private soldier under the said Capt Andrews, when he was discharged, but he has no written discharge. and he also says that this service was continuous, as it was for the time his only business, to the exclusion of all attention to his usual occupation or employment - This was in the latter part of the year 1776 and the fore part of the year 1777 - The third term of duty in the fall of the year 1777 to Fishkill & Redbank under Capt Andrews, and stated in his former declaration to be about two months. the applicant now says was two months which time he says he served as a private and was discharged but without any written discharge - Another term of duty mentioned in his former declaration as being about a week, when the enemy in 1777 went to Danbury in Connecticut and burnt it. the applicant says was one week which term of time he served as a private - In all the terms of duty mentioned in the former declaration the applicant says he served as a private soldier, except in the two last of nine months each, when he served as a Sergeant as he has stated in his former declaration &

hace a Sergeants warrant at the time, but has since lost it - And in all of the cases of service in the time of the Revolution, and for which he now claims compensation the declarant says, he was in the service of  quiltion of  the service of the State of Connecticut - And that while on guard on the coast of Fairfield, and when stationed at his own house in Greensfarms, the business of the policeman was his only business, to the exclusion of his usual occupation or employment - And the declarant further says that he is destitute of property that he is unable to earn a living and that he is depend- -ant upon his son for his support - and that if any thing he is entitled to a remuneration for his revolutionary services by the pension department of the Government, it will be most acceptable & serve to cheer the few remaining days of his life - he has now produced the best evidence in his power and made out his claim upon the council of the War department - and the evidence he has produced - has been to and submitted in the last year aforesaid before David Hill Judge of Probate for the district aforesaid -
Stephen G. Godfrey

6264 Stephen Godfrey
- Obj 5
Admitted Private Sergeant 18 months Private - 6 do Infantry
90 940 Asaph Allen Saugatuck Court Admitted Hamfield Court

BRIEF in the case of  Stephen Godfrey  of  Fairfield  in the State of Connecticut  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 86 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Full In 1776 2 15 Private Gen. Capt Andrew Col Limer   77 6 Capt Andrew   77 2 Capt [unclear] Col Limer   79 9 about 7 Sergeant Col Limer   82 9 Sergeant Capt Nick Col Limer  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Several skirmishes -  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Fairfield Connecticut  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Butts Examining Clerk.

Reborn
13171 INVALID.
am
File No. 13.171
Stephen Godfrey Sergt Det. War.
Act: June 1 st 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 146
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield
On this 21 st day of July 1832
Personally appeared before me the Subordinate Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Fairfield Samuel H. Wheeler  to Samuel & Ebenezer Israh both of the town of Fairfield County aforesaid, and being first duly sworn accord- -ing to law depose & say that they have been well acquainted with Stephen Godfrey the above named applicant for a pension, for more than forty years past part, that he has always firm they know him been respected & beloved in the neighbourhood where he has lived to have been a soldier of the rev- -olution & that they concur in that opinion - & never had any reason to believe to the contrary, nor have they ever heard it con- -tradicted; that these deponents have lived for a great many years in the vicinity of said Godfrey - that they believe he is between 80 & 90 years of age - and further than deponents say not - and that he is a man of truth and veracity & further saith not -
Sworn & subscribed on the day & at the place before me -
Eliz a Israh Stephen Monkamp above written Eliz a Swift Jus of Peace

I Garrison Morehouse of the Town of Fairfield, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut. Aged. Eighty Seven years. being duly Cautioned and Sworn do. Testify and Say. that I am personally acquainted with the Services in the Revolutionary War. of Stephen Godfrey of Said Fairfield, he the Said Stephen Godfrey. Enlisted as a Serjeant early in the Spring of the year 1781. in Captain Thomas Nash's Company in Col. Dimes Regt. and I Served under him on the Grand of the Sea Coast of the Town of Fairfield. for. Nine Months, in the State Troops and was discharged late in the Fall of the same year, and further the deponent Testifies and Says, that Said. Godfrey Served with him. the deponent. in the Militia on a Tour of duty to New York for. about. Two Months, at the time the City of New York was Evacuated by the American Troops. we Served under the Command of Capt. John Andrews. the Col. I don't recollect. and further the Deponent Testifies not; Dated at. Fairfield this 18 th day of July 1832 Garrison Morehouse
State of Connecticut, County of Fairfield } ss. Fairfield July 18. 1832 the foregoing Deposition of Garrison Morehouse. was taken Subscribed and Sworn to before me -
Jermiah Sturges J.P.
I hereby Certify that Garrison Morehouse, who has Signed the foregoing Deposition is old and infirm from bodily infirmity & unable to Attend the Court. & I further Certify that the Said Morehouse is of the first Standing in Society whose Character for Truth and Veracity is indisputable -
Jermiah Sturges J.P.

I Walter Burnt of the Town of Bridgeport in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut do hereby  As a County Clerk do Testify And Say that Early in the Spring of the year 1781 I Enlisted as a private Soldier in the State Troops under Captain Thomas Nash in Col. Elmer (Divers Regt. of Foot) for the Term of Nine Months and Served until late in the fall of the Same Year in the Guard of the Sea Coast of said Fairfield Also Early in the Spring of the year 1782 I Enlisted again as a private Soldier in the Same Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Nash for the further Term of Nine Months and Served until late in the fall of the Same year 1782 in the Guard of the Sea Coast of said Fairfield, and further the deponent saith that Stephen Godfrey of said Fairfield Enlisted as a Sergeant in said Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Nash in the Spring of the year 1781. and also in the Spring of 1782 and Served in the aforesaid Guard for the Term of Nine Months in Each of the aforesaid Years of 1781 & 1782 And further the deponent saith that he frequently heard Say that the aforesaid Stephen Godfrey was in the Service at the time the City of New York was Evacuated by the British Army, but personally knows nothing of that part of his Service & further the deponent saith not stated at Fairfield this 18 th day of July 1832 Walter Burnt
State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss. Fairfield July 18. 1832 The foregoing Deposition was taken, Subscribed and Sworn to before me Jessiah Sturges J.P.
I further testify that the deponent Walter Burnt lives nearly twenty miles from here in the Town of Trumbull and that his character for truth and veracity is incontestable Jessiah Sturges J.P.

I William Allen of the Town & County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut. Aged Sixty Seven Years do. Testify and Say that Early in the Spring of the year 1781. I Enlisted as a private Soldier in the State Troops. under Captain Thomas Nash in Col. Sturges (Diversions Regt. of Foot. for the Term of Nine Months and Served until late in the Fall of the Same Year in the Guard of the Sea Coast of the Town of Fairfield Also Early in the Spring of the year 1782. I Enlisted again as a private Soldier in the Same Company. commanded by Capt. Thomas Nash for the further term of Nine Months and Served in the Guard as aforesaid until late in the Fall of the Same year 1782 and further the deponent Testifies & Says that Stephen Godfrey of Said Fairfield Enlisted as a Sergeant in Said Company. commanded by Capt. Thomas Nash. in the Spring of the year 1781 and Also in the Spring of the year 1782 and Served with me in the Guard aforesaid the Two Terms of Nine Months in Each of the years 1781 & 1782. and further the deponent Says that he has frequently heard Say that Said Stephen Godfrey was in the Service at the time the City of New York was Evacuated by the British Troops, but knows nothing personally about that part of his Service & further the deponent Testifies not. Dated at Fairfield this 18 th day of July 1832
sworn in open Court Sed the B. B. Clarke Clerk
William Allen
State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } Fairfield July 18. 1832 the foregoing Deposition of William Allen was taken Subscribed & sworn before me
Jerronick Sturges J.P.
I further certify that the above named Deponent is a man whose Character for Truth and Veracity is unquestionable
Jerronick Sturges J.P.

I hereby certify that Eliphalet Swift and Jeremiah Thurgus before whom the foregoing Depositions were taken are Justices of the Peace and that it appears from the hand and writing that the Depositions by them subscribed were taken by them - And I would also certify that it appears from the statements of the applicant for a Pension Stephen Godfrey, that the reason why the foregoing Depositions were taken before the Justices, was the great difficulty on account of their distance from Court, his extreme Poverty and other circumstances to get the witnesses  them to attend before the Court to give their testimony
Fairfield July the 25 th 1832 David Hill Judge of Probate

11.6261.
State of Connecticut Fairfield County }
I Thomas B. Borne Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield in s d State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Elizalet Swift Esquire, whose own proper signature known to me to be genuine is annexed to the Certificate on the annexed prefixed affidavit of Ebenezer Israel & Stephen Morehouse, is now & for more than one year last past has been a Justice of the Peace for s d Fairfield County duly commissioned & duly empowered to administer oaths, take affidavits &c. I further certify that Jeremiah Sturges Esq before whom the prefixed Depositions of Groommore Morehouse, Wakeman Burritt & William Allen were sworn, is now & was on the 18 th of Instant July a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County duly commissioned & duly authorised to administer oaths & take Depositions &c. I further certify that the official signatures of the said Sturges to the Certificates on each of said Depositions are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 31 st day of July A d 1832.
Thomas B. Borne Clerk of said County Court for Fairfield County

State of Connecticut ss District of Fairfield June the 3 d 1883 I Thomas F Davis a Clergyman residing in the Parish of Greens Farms in the Town of Fairfield do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Stephen Godfrey who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and believe him to be Eighty seven years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in the same opinion & I also certify him to be a man of truth Th. F. Davies. Sworn to & subscribed in the day and year aforesaid before me David Hill Judge of Probate for the district aforesaid
And the said Court hereby declares its opinion after the investigation of the matter that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the said Court further certifies that Thomas F Davis - is a Clergyman, a resident of the District and State aforesaid and in good standing with his clerical brethren - David Hill Judge of Probate
I David Hill Jr Clerk of the Court of probate for the district of Fairfield aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the second application of Stephen Godfrey for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this 3 d day of June 1883
David Hill Jr Clerk